to the advanced preparation and development of this new world-class artist. Season 2010 - 2011: Rossini CD, Tour and Les Huguenots - with Marc Minkowski Naïve released Lezhneva's first solo recording in spring 2011, Rossini arias with Marc Minkowski and Sinfonia Varsovia. The CD won the Diapason d'Or de l'Année "Jeune talent". It was the Gramophone Editor's Choice for July 2011 and the German MDR "CD des Jahres 2011". Other engagements that season included concert performances of Fiordiligi in Mozart's Così fan tutte with Les Musiciens du Louvre, a debut at La Monnaie as Urbain in a new production of Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots conducted by Minkowski, Stravinsky's Le Rossignol and Tchaikovsky's Iolanta at the Salzburg Festival with Ivor Bolton conducting the Mozarteum Orchestra, Mozart's Mass in C Minor under Giovanni Antonini also at the Salzburg Festival, and an American debut in a performances of the Mozart's Requiem with Louis Langrée and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra at the Lincoln Center. Season 2011 - 2012: Tamerlano in Salzburg and Vivaldi's L'Oracolo This season saw Lezhneva's debut with Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Franz Welser-Möst performing the Mozart's Great Mass in C minor. She appeared in concerts throughout Europe. Lezhneva performed Elena's aria from Rossini's La donna del lago during the 2012 Victoires de la musique classique ceremony. She returned to the Salzburg Festival for the third consecutive season, singing the role of Asteria in Handel's Tamerlano at the Großes Festspielhaus with Marc Minkowski conducting Les Musiciens du Louvre. Season 2012 - 2013: Handel's Il Trionfo, Il Barbiere and Alleluia CD The season saw further projects with Il Giardino Armonico – her new Decca solo album Alleluia was released in March 2013 and she performed in numerous solo concerts dedicated to the CD programme throughout Europe. Lezhneva sang the role of Piacere in a concert version of Handel's Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno with René Jacobs conducting the Freiburger Barockorchester in a multi-city European tour. She performed Rosina in Rossini's The Barber of Seville on 14 June 2013, at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, conducted Roger Norrington. Season 2013 - 2014: Handel's Alessandro and Pergolesi CD Lezhneva sang the role of Rossane in a concert version Handel's Alessandro with George Petrou conducting the Armonia Atenea on the ensemble's tour to the Bucharest Atheneum, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Paris Salle Pleyel and Theater an der Wien. Lezhneva performed a recital with pianist Mikhail Antonenko at